Overcoming Codependency

This meditation supports intimacy and connection while helping you stay rooted in yourself. It gently guides you to experience closeness without merging, pressure, or self-erasure. Through somatic awareness, you learn to rest in relationship while honoring personal boundaries and inner steadiness.

Return to this practice when relationship feels overwhelming, when you notice yourself disappearing into another person's needs, or when you want to experience intimacy that is calm, dignified, and alive.

Formerly titled: Sacred Presence: Being With Another Without Losing Yourself

Transcript

Take a moment to arrive as you are.

Notice your body exactly where it is.

The weight,

The shape,

The steadiness of being you.

Feel the places where you are supported.

Let support be felt before anything else.

Allow your breath to move naturally,

Settling in to simple presence.

Now bring awareness to the simple fact of another.

Not a specific person,

Unless that feels natural.

Notice what happens in your body when you sense proximity.

You might feel leaning,

Bracing,

Softening,

Or neutrality.

All responses are welcome.

A sacred presence in relationship allows connection while remaining rooted in yourself.

So bring attention back to your own center.

The steadiness of your spine.

The rhythm of your breath.

The quiet continuity of being you.

From this rooted place,

Allow awareness to widen again,

Including the space where another might be.

You are here.

The other is here.

Both can be held at the same time.

If sensation arises,

Warmth,

Openness,

Tenderness,

Let it move through naturally.

If sensation is quiet,

Let that be complete.

Intimacy lives in presence,

Not in sensation alone.

Notice how it feels to remain with yourself while allowing connection.

Presence meeting presence.

Steady,

Responsive,

And alive.

This is sacred maturity.

Availability held with dignity.

If desire appears,

Let it exist as movement and energy.

If love is present,

Allow it to remain spacious.

If uncertainty arises,

Let it be met gently.

Everything here belongs.

Take a few breaths resting in this balance.

Self.

Other.

Connection.

All held with ease.

As this practice settles,

Remember that being with another does not require leaving yourself.

This way of being supports intimacy that is steady,

Dignified,

And alive.

It remains available whenever you want to return to presence within connection.

When you're ready,

Allow gentle movement back into the body.

Or let the eyes open softly.

Take your time.